Carpet-scrubbing device



(No Model.)

D. 0. SUMMERS. CARPET SGRUBBING DEVICE.

Patented Apr.6, 1897.

INVENTOR.

W 1 J/W A W TNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

DAVID O. SUMMERS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CARPET- SCRUBBING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,016, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed May 29,1896. Serial No. 593,528. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID O. SUMMERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Scrubbing Devices, of which the following, with the accompanying. drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices designed for use in cleaning or scrubbing carpets.

Heretofore the scrubbing of carpets has been done very largely without removing them from the floor where they have been used, compelling the workmen to get upon their knees, scrub, scrape, and rinse at a considerable expense of time and labor, the work necessarily being done slowly owing to the cramped position of the workmen, and with the usual result of wetting the carpet through the warp and requiring a considerable time in which to dry. If taken from the floor and sent to a carpet-cleaning establishment, they there have to be tacked down upon the operating-floor before they can be cleaned, causing an unnecessary loss of time and labor.

The object of this invention is to provide a device for holding the carpet while being cleaned, mechanically draw the soiled portion upon the cleaning-table and pass the cleaned portion between compression-rolls, provide a suds-hopper and refuse-receptacle, the whole being so arranged as to materially expedite the process of cleaning.

To this end the invention consists of a suitable frame carrying a pair of rolls adapted to be intermittently rotated, a suds-hopper, inclined tables leading to the rolls, and refusereceptacle, all combined and operating as more fully hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 00 0c of Fig. 1.

A represents a suitable frame.

B is a roll journaled in suitable bearings in the ends of the frame, and it is adapted to be intermittently rotated at the will of the operator, either by hand or power.

0 is a friction-roll, the shaft of which is journaled in bearings carried by the crossbar D, the ends of the latter having a vertical movement in guide-sockets formed in the inner edges of the side posts of the frame, as

shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3.

E are coil or other suitable springs interposed between the cross-bars D and the upper rigid bars of the frame.

F is a hopper designed to receive the cleansing-suds, and it is provided with a series of faucets G.

H is an inclined scrubbing-table.

I is an inclined receiving-table.

J is a refuse-receptacle.

In practice one end of the rug or carpet to be cleaned is temporarily tacked upon the scrubbing-table, or small hooks may be provided for the purpose. The operator then opens one of the faucets and allows a sufficient quantity of the suds to flow onto the carpet. He then scrubs with a stiff brush, after which he scrapes the refuse into the receptacle J and rinses the cleaned portion with a sponge and clear water. He now releases the carpet and passes the end already cleaned between the rolls B O, puts them in motion, thereby drawing an uncleaned portion of the carpet upon the operating-table, the rolls also serving as a wringer upon the portion which passes between them. Having stopped the rolls, they hold the carpet firmly while the scrubbing operation is repeated. This operation is continued until the entire carpet is cleaned, after which it is hung up to dry.

that I claim as my invention is- In a device of the character described, in combination, a frame, a roll adapted to be rotated in stationary bearings, a friction-roll journaled in vertically-yielding bearings, a scrubbing-table, a suds-hopper provided with one or more faucets, and a refuse-receptacle, substantially as and for the purposes described.

. In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of April, 1896.

DAVID O. SUMMERS.

W'itnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, P. M. SMIT. 

